​DREAM Weekly, Disability and Higher Education in the News: March 19-April 1, 2017From DREAM: Disability Rights, Education, Activism, and MentoringSponsored by the National Center for College Students with Disabilities and the Association on Higher Education And Disability (AHEAD)

-------------------------------Weekly Update on Issues Related to Disability and Higher Education Weeks of March 19-April 1, 2017

** WELCOME BACK FROM SPRING BREAK!! TODAY IS A DOUBLE ISSUE **-------------------------------

* Meet Kat Perez, disability studies doctoral student and AAPD leadership award winner for her work as co-founder of the National Coalition for Latinxs with Disabilities (video is captioned but not audio described; if you click the “cc” button, it will also be captioned in Spanish): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TWqEaVzawww

* Participants were live-tweeting at the March 30-31 “Disability Studies: A History” conference at the University of Pennslyvania – you can follow the conversation here: https://twitter.com/penn_dshistory

* “Special needs?” Like what…needing a cat massage? A new video about Down syndrome and special needs has gone viral with its humorous response to the term (click on “watch video now” to see the captioned video): https://worlddownsyndromeday.org/notspecialneeds

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